Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

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Item 2.02. Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On January 28, 2019, Element Solutions Inc ("Element Solutions") issued a press release announcing Element Solutions' preliminary unaudited financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2018. This Current Report on Form 8-K is being filed to provide Element Solutions' usual set of financial results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2018 (the "2018 Final Results") following the filing by Element Solutions, on February 28, 2019, of its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018. The 2018 Final Results are attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and are incorporated herein by reference.

To supplement the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America ("GAAP"), within the 2018 Final Results, Element Solutions has provided the following non-GAAP financial measures: EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin, adjusted EBITDA guidance, adjusted earnings (loss) per share (EPS), adjusted EPS guidance and organic net sales growth. Element Solutions also evaluates and presents its results of operations on a constant currency basis. Investors are encouraged to refer to the Non-GAAP Measures section in the 2018 Final Results for Element Solutions' definitions of these non-GAAP measures, descriptions of non-GAAP adjustments, and reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP financial measures.

The information in this Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto shall not be deemed to be "filed" for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing of Element Solutions, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing, unless expressly incorporated by specific reference to such filing.